Energy
Age 9-11: Concept 1 - Relationships: Unit 2

Experiment with the characteristics of light. Design a solar powered car. Follow the chain of energy as it passes through the organisms in a habitat. Learn to identify potential and kinetic energy in its various forms. Build your own calorimeter to discover the number of calories in a variety of foods.
This unit can be used independently, but it is also designed to be used concurrently with the literature unit for The View from Saturday.
This unit can be used independently, but it is also designed to be used concurrently with the literature unit for The View from Saturday.
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Prerequisites
- Able to read and comprehend novels at a late 5th or 6th grade reading level
- Able to write multiple paragraphs on a topic
- Usually used by children in fifth grade
Table of Contents
- Lesson 1: What Is Energy? (2 Days)
- Lesson 2: Light (3 Days)
- Lesson 3: Electricity (2 Days)
- Lesson 4: Heat and the Sun (2 Days)
- Lesson 5: Chemical Energy
- Lesson 6: Food and Energy (2 Days)
- Final Project: Energy Test
Summary of Skills
Moving Beyond the Page is based on state and national standards. These standards are covered in this unit.
- Demonstrate that evaporation and melting are changes that occur when the objects are heated. (Science)
- Determine the motion of an object by following and measuring its position over time. (Science)
- Differentiate among forms of energy including light, heat, electrical, nuclear, chemical, sound, mechanical, magnetic, and solar energy. (Science)
- Discuss how foods provide both energy and nutrients for living organisms. (Science)
- Evaluate how pushing or pulling forces change the position and motion of an object. (Science)
- Explain how machines and living things convert stored energy to motion and heat. (Science)
- Explain why organisms require energy to live and grow. (Science)
- Identify sources of stored energy, such as food, fuel, and batteries. (Science)
- Know how energy for your home is produced. (Science)
- Observe that light can be reflected off or absorbed by different surfaces. (Science)
- Recognize plants as the primary source of matter and energy entering most food chains. (Science)
- Recognize that all matter is made of small particles called atoms, too small to see with the naked eye. (Science)
- Recognize that color of light striking an object affects the way the object is seen. (Science)
- Recognize that energy comes from the Sun to the Earth in the form of light. (Science)
- Recognize that light has a source and travels in a direction. (Science)
- Recognize the difference between potential and kinetic energy. (Science)
- Show how calories can be used to compare the chemical energy of different foods. (Science)
- Understand how decomposers, including many fungi, insects, and microorganisms, recycle matter from dead plants and animals. (Science)
- Understand how energy is carried from one place to another by waves, such as water waves and sound waves, by electric current, and by moving objects. (Science)
- Understand how plants are the primary source of matter and energy entering most food chains. (Science)
- Understand how producers and consumers (herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers) are related in food chains and webs and compete for resources in an ecosystem. (Science)
- Understand that heat is transferred from hot things to cool things. (Science)